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The crowd started out as a fairly modest gathering (ultimately grew to 110 people). The wall and buildings in back of us are part of Fort McNair, where Major General Buchanan, who will make the final decision on Bradley Manning, is staying. If the decision is a good one and

From WHYY Public Media. One of Philadelphia’s Gold Star Mothers, Celeste Zappala, was interviewed by WHYY on Tuesday, the 19th of March and the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Zappala lost her son Sherwood Baker in 2004. He was the first National Guard member to lose

Two right-wingers have come to the same conclusion at the same time. Ted Nugent, the aging one-hit wonder of the late 1970s and really, really enthusiastic gun advocate, tells us about black people voting for the Democratic Party: The truth is that the Democratic Party has been the engineer of

Columnist, former speechwriter for the elder George Bush and frequent talk-show guest Peggy Noonan urges conservatives “Now’s the time to put a dagger ‘tween their teeth, wave a sword, grab a rope and swing aboard the enemy’s galleon. Take the president’s issues, steal them–they never belonged to him, they’re yours!”

What is going on with PAs voter ID law? What is the real purpose of the law? Is voter fraud really a legitimate concern? Going through the comments on the Inky’s website (The Philadelphia Inquirer puts comment sections after most articles, the section after the Letters to the Editor is,

Occupiers gathered into discussion circles in Franklin Square Park. Although the original idea was that they would be camped around the Liberty Bell, this the park was only two blocks away. No tents were permitted, but sleeping there on the ground was okay. Yeah, it was pretty hot. The water

This has to be the least surprising news I’ve seen in awhile. Star Wars/ABM/Missile Defense is worthless! Na-a-awwww! Re-e-eally?!?!? Gee, who’d a thunk it? I did a paper on this back in college during the late 1980s, concluding that, yes, “shooting down a bullet with a bullet” can be done,

You can tell that I’m conditioned by certain sights and phrases. I looked at a blog post and saw a photo of an attractive woman on CNN who questioned Tony Perkins (The post accurately identified Perkins as the “SPLC-certified hate group leader”) and immediately thought “Aw yeesh! How his this

Can we Occupy the budget debate? The Congressional Progressive Caucus actually has a good proposal on the table, but the chattering class and the press corps are fixated on Representative Ryan’s plan, which doesn’t meet any criteria of reasonableness or rationality. But it does meet the criteria of “austerity,” the

On the evening of Sunday the 13th of November, marchers from Occupy Wall Street (OWS) joined up with members of Occupy Philadelphia (OP) to collaborate in a night-time march. The OWS people were on their way to Washington DC to make it clear that “We are the 99%!” As I’ve